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History of Art

Diagramming Devotion Berthold of Nuremberg's Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus's Poems in Praise of the Cross

Hamburger Jeffrey F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226642819, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
384 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 183 colour plates, 38 halftones

During the European Middle Ages, diagrams provided a critical tool of analysis in cosmological and theological debates. In addition to drawing relationships among diverse areas of human knowledge and experience, diagrams themselves generated such kno...

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Contemporary Art

Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting

Brandesky Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9788024642697, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
450 pp., 26x23.4 cm, 125 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Although Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he won international respect for his work. Spanning Malina's entire life – from his early year...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Aesthetic Theory

Mersch Dieter, Zanetti Sandro, Sasse Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9783035801460, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
240 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 15 colour plates, 20 halftones

Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic the...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Cao Jun Hymns to Nature

Sallis John

ISBN: PB: 9781892850300, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2019
125 pp., 35.6x30.5 cm, 64 colour plates, 8 halftones

No contemporary artist has succeeded so thoroughly in blending classical Chinese art and modern abstract art as Cao Jun, who has exhibited widely in China, as well as at the Louvre. Accompanying an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston Col...

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Photography

After the Crisis Contemporary States of Photography

Grau Donatien, Wiesner Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9783035802023, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
160 pp., 18.6x11.8 cm, 20 halftones

"After the Crisis" offers a platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today. Contributors come from the realms of critical theory...

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Photography

Black Lives 1900 W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

Francis Jacqueline, Hall Stephen G.

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781942884538, DAP, Redstone Press, November 2019
144 pp., 31.8x24.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 54 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented an exhibit representing the progress of African Americans since the abolition of slavery. In striking graphic visualisations and...

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Contemporary Art

Christine Corday Relative Points

Melandri Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780997736410, DAP, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, November 2019
86 pp., 25.9x21.3 cm, 54 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This book accompanies New York – based artist Christine Corday's (born 1970) site-specific installation at CAM St. Louis. Corday's 12 monumental sculptures – made from 10,000 pounds of compressed elemental metal – are arran...

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Contemporary Art

Conversations with Artists II

Zuckerman Heidi

ISBN: PB: 9780934324892, DAP, Aspen Art Press, November 2019
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! In Volume II of "Conversations with Artists", Heidi Zuckerman, CEO and Director of the Aspen Art Museum, continues to explore the critical practices, daily lives and philosophical interests of artists working today. Her ins...

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Contemporary Art

Genealogies of Art, or the History of Art as Visual Art

Fontan del Junco Manuel, Lebrero Stals Jose, Zozaya Alvarez Maria

ISBN: HB: 9788470756610, DAP, Fundacion Juan March, November 2019
450 pp., 33.7x28.6 cm, 500 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Genealogies of Art" analyzes the visual representations of art history made by artists, critics, designers, theorists and poets alike, from the genealogical trees of the 12th through the 15th centuries and the Renaissance...

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Contemporary Art

JR: Chronicles

Pasternak Anne

ISBN: HB: 9782954226699, DAP, Maison CF + Brooklyn Museum, November 2019
240 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Over the past two decades, French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to people around the world. Showcasing the full scope of the artist'...

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